Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

If you want a new idea, read an old book.

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

What signifies knowing the names, if you know not the nature of things?

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance between chaos and community.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

I have to face life with a newly found passion. I must rediscover the irresistible will to learn, to live and to love.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it continues the true source of national vigor and strength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows he knows his course is wrong and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.

In school, you are given the lesson first. One the street, you're given the mistake first and then it's up to you to find the lesson, if you ever find it.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fastest fairest attunement; all things are born through strife.

I’m fascinated with myself and love hearing the sound of my own voice. I’d like to hear what I have to say. A lot of people don’t like being alone because they truly don’t like themselves, but I love me.

Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

I refuse to accept the idea that the “isness” of man’s present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the “oughtness” that forever confronts him.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

No man is born unto himself alone; who lives unto himself, he lives to none.

He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.